9 Section
Therapy Practice Therapy
PT, OT, and ST in the home: evaluation, reassessment, HEPs, and equipment.
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9.1PT, OT, and ST in the Home
What each therapy discipline does in home health, where the overlaps genuinely are, and when to refer to each other.
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9.2The Therapy Evaluation
What the first visit has to establish, assessing in the environment the patient actually lives in, and building a plan that survives the episode.
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9.3Tests and Measures
The standardised measures that work in a living room, what each one tells you, and why a repeated number is worth more than a paragraph.
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9.4Reassessment and Showing Progress
Who may reassess, how often, and what a reassessment has to demonstrate — including when the numbers are not moving.
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9.5Home Exercise Programs That Patients Actually Do
Why most HEPs are not done, how to write one that is, and how to make the programme itself the evidence of skilled care.
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9.6DME and Adaptive Equipment
What to order, how to size it properly, getting it paid for, and why the equipment in the cupboard is the most common failure.
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9.7Therapy-Only Cases
What changes when therapy is the only discipline, the OASIS you will be completing, and the findings that mean calling for a nurse.
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9.8Maintenance Therapy and the Jimmo Standard
Coverage does not require improvement. What the standard actually says, when maintenance therapy is skilled, and how to document it so it holds.